Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?

Takashi Murai The "immortal jellyfish" can transform itself back into a polyp and begin life anew. After more than 4,000 years — almost since the dawn of recorded time, when Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh that the secret to immortality lay in a coral...

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Mercury Home to Ice, Messenger Spacecraft Findings Suggest

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Deep within craters near Mercury's poles, temperatures dip to as low as 370 degrees below zero. Mercury is as cold as ice. Indeed, Mercury, the closest...

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60-Million-Year Debate on Grand Canyon’s Age

Richard Perry/The New York Times New research suggests that the Grand Canyon is about 70 million years old, but the prevailing view is that it is much younger. How old is the Grand Canyon? Old enough to be gazed on by dinosaurs, which died out...

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Undisclosed Finding by Mars Rover Fuels Intrigue

The Mars rover Curiosity has found something — something noteworthy, in a pinch of Martian sand. But what is it? NASA/JPL-Caltech, via Malin Space Science Systems, via EPA The Curiosity rover in a self-portrait stitched together from 55 images...

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Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?

Takashi Murai The "immortal jellyfish" can transform itself back into a polyp and begin life anew. After more than 4,000 years — almost since the dawn of recorded time, when Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh that the secret to immortality lay in a coral...

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U.N. Agency Says 2012 Ranks Among Hottest Years

GENEVA — This year has ranked among the nine warmest since records began more than 160 years ago, continuing a trend for the planet that is increasing the dangers of extreme weather events, according to United Nations meteorologists. "It confirms...

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Essay: Biblical Literalists’ Clash With Science

It was the standard political interview, about ambition and the right size for government. Then came the curveball question to Senator Marco Rubio of Florida from Michael Hainey of GQ magazine: "How old do you think the earth is?" Senator Rubio,...

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Clearing the Fog Around Personality Disorders

For years they have lived as orphans and outliers, a colony of misfit characters on their own island: the bizarre one and the needy one, the untrusting and the crooked, the grandiose and the cowardly. Their customs and rituals are as captivating...

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Undisclosed Finding by Mars Rover Fuels Intrigue

The Mars rover Curiosity has found something — something noteworthy, in a pinch of Martian sand. But what is it? NASA/JPL-Caltech, via Malin Space Science Systems, via EPA The Curiosity rover in a self-portrait stitched together from 55 images...

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Essay: Biblical Literalists’ Clash With Science

It was the standard political interview, about ambition and the right size for government. Then came the curveball question to Senator Marco Rubio of Florida from Michael Hainey of GQ magazine: "How old do you think the earth is?" Senator Rubio,...

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Studying Cities to Find Global Warming’s Benefits

Heat, carbon dioxide and air pollution are already having significant effects on trees, plants and crops, and for most plant scientists, the debate over climate change ended long before the arrival of extreme weather like Hurricane Sandy. Now, some...

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Clearing the Fog Around Personality Disorders

For years they have lived as orphans and outliers, a colony of misfit characters on their own island: the bizarre one and the needy one, the untrusting and the crooked, the grandiose and the cowardly. Their customs and rituals are as captivating as...

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Scientists See Advances in Deep Learning, a Part of Artificial Intelligence

Hao Zhang/The New York Times A voice recognition program translated a speech given by Richard F. Rashid, Microsoft's top scientist, into Mandarin Chinese. Using an artificial intelligence technique inspired by theories about how the brain recognizes...

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Prototype: Customized Skis, Tailored by Science

CAN a computer algorithm create the perfect pair of skis? Pete Wagner, a 37-year-old Ohio native, likes to think so. Since 2006, he has been applying his background in mechanical engineering and computer coding to make skis — and a few snowboards,...

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M.I.T. Lab Hatches Ideas, and Companies, by the Dozens

HOW do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company? Dr. Robert Langer, 64, knows how. Since the 1980s, his Langer Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has spun out companies...

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Prototype: Customized Skis, Tailored by Science

CAN a computer algorithm create the perfect pair of skis? Pete Wagner, a 37-year-old Ohio native, likes to think so. Since 2006, he has been applying his background in mechanical engineering and computer coding to make skis — and a few snowboards,...

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